Myth, Scandal, and History
Subtitle: The Heinrich Schliemann Controversy and a First Edition of the Mycenaean Diary
Contributors: David A. Traill (Editor)
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr; Wayne State University Press
Published: July 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780814317952
Subjects: Archaeology by period / region; Schliemann, Heinrich; History Of Archaeology; 1822-1890; Archaeology; Germany; Greece; Schliemann, Heinrich,
Description: "Heinrich Schliemann (German: [li?man]; 6 January 1822 ? 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology. He was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine levels of archaeological remains with dynamite has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artifacts, including the level that is believed to be the historical Troy."--Wikipedia.